What length of trains do you run on your layout/How big is your station?

[cteno4]

on the jrm layout we have a full 16 car shinkansen station. this ends up taking 3 meters to get the full station in with 2 full tracks and 2 passing tracks. its a lot of room, but very nice to pull full 16 car trains into!

 

cheers

 

jeff

[Mudkip Orange]

As I'm a commuter type of guy with only a passing interest in Shinkansen, 11 cars is the theoretical maximum I would design for given unlimited space and budget.

 

In practice, my longest train is 8 cars. That would change with different financial circumstances.

[scott]

Interesting; I'm not sure exactly what we can fit, but I'll measure and see. Most of the Japanese stuff we're running right now is fairly short. I can get five or six Euro coaches at the longer platforms at the main stations.

[CaptOblivious]

As I'm a commuter type of guy with only a passing interest in Shinkansen, 11 cars is the theoretical maximum I would design for given unlimited space and budget.

 

In practice, my longest train is 8 cars. That would change with different financial circumstances.

 

Well, you might consider upping that to 15, to handle the 10+5 outer suburban types (e.g. E231-1000, E531) ;)

[qwertyaardvark]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-rOuLwCP-Q&hl=ja_JP&fs=1&

why stop at 15?  

 

(that's 44 cars, btw)

 

i kinda cheat, in the fact that i currently only play with unitrack, as opposed to set permanent layouts, but i tend to try to run full-length shinkansens/eurostars/700T etc.

[Bernard]

44 cars WOW  :icon_cyclops_ani:(that's also baseball great Hank Aaron's number)

 

What I really like is the super elevated curve the trains go around.  :icon_thumright:

[Mudkip Orange]

Well, you might consider upping that to 15, to handle the 10+5 outer suburban types (e.g. E231-1000, E531) ;)

 

Yeah, and I actually own a set of E531 Jobans... but for me, what I know is that if I bought the 5-car E531 to go with my 10, I'd just end up running them as two separate trains 90% of the time.

 

Truth is I'm pretty satisfied with 8. The only think that would cause me to rethink that is if I got the full Super View Odoriko, because the asymmetry of the train doesn't lend itself to consolidation.